Midnight Sun (22 page)
Authors: Rachel Grant
The sky was a blur, but it didn’t look like the shooting stars were spelling words, let alone ones for her. She rubbed at her eyes and opened them again. When she finally managed to focus, she gasped. She’d seen the aurora borealis twice from Washington, but neither time had been anything like the play of colors that danced across the sky now. It was a symphony of light. Green, red, violet, and blue hues all flowed together. But on the edge of the red was a shade Sienna knew as well as her name—because it was her name—burnt sienna—a warm earthy orange in the celestial sky.
Sienna smiled and whispered, “You’re welcome, Jana.” Then she added, “And thank you for Rhys. I don’t know if you intended for it to be permanent or not, but I’m keeping him.”
Author’s Note
I
n October 2013, a large collection of artifacts that had been stored at the University of Washington’s Burke Museum for nearly sixty years was returned to the Suquamish Tribe. The artifacts had been excavated from the Old Man House site in Kitsap County, which was the winter village for the Suquamish Tribe and home of Chief Sealth, also known as Chief Seattle. Transported over Puget Sound by ferry, the artifacts were escorted by a very rare and large pod of orcas. Nearly three dozen orcas surrounded the ferry as it entered Eagle Harbor at Bainbridge Island.
Tribal members were on the ferry to witness the remarkable event, and many believe there is a spiritual tie between the orcas and the tribe. In June of 2014, the tribe held a ceremony to honor the killer whales who led the treasures of Old Man House back to Suquamish.
You can read about the orca escort in this
Seattle Times
article, or watch this
King 5 news segment
,
which describes the significance of the artifacts to the tribe’s cultural heritage and includes footage of the orcas.
T
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Acknowledgements
T
hank you to the amazing Robin Perini for inviting me to be a part of the Twelve Shades of Midnight anthology, which gave me an excuse to start this new series and dabble in the paranormal.
Thank you to the other fabulous authors in the anthology for participating in this fun project and the wonderful support and camaraderie that developed as we worked out the details.
Thank you to Jenn Stark for the online plotting sessions and for critiquing this even when you were under deadline. I’m forever grateful! Thank you to Darcy Burke for her always spot-on critiques.
Thank you to my editor, Linda Ingmanson, for helping me make this book shine.
Thank you, as always, to my husband, David Grant, for sharing his knowledge about Iñupiat prehistory, archaeology, artifacts, daylight fireworks, fishing boats, and C-4 explosives, and for helping me find the information I needed on those subjects and more when my question couldn’t be answered with an Internet search. I love you.
Incriminating Evidence
Chapter One
